Lizzie (Wallace Liz)
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Lizzie (Wallace Liz)

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1941-11-05
Death reason:	disease: poison
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, in United States

Date of arrival

1939-00-00	Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus

1925-00-00	Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus from John Robinson Circus

1923-00-00	John Robinson Circus from Gollmar Brothers Circus

1922-00-00	Gollmar Brothers Circus from Howes Great London Circus and Van Amburgs Trained Wild Animals

1921-00-00	Howes Great London Circus and Van Amburgs Trained Wild Animals from Howes Great London Circus (Mugivan and Bowers)

1920-00-00	Howes Great London Circus (Mugivan and Bowers) 1920-00-00 from William P. Hall Animal Farm

1919-00-00	William P. Hall Animal Farm from R.T. Richards Circus

1917-00-00	R.T. Richards Circus from Wheeler Brothers Circus

1916-00-00	Wheeler Brothers Circus from Barton and Bailey Circus

1915-00-00	Barton and Bailey Circus from William P. Hall Animal Farm

1913-00-00	William P. Hall Animal Farm from Campbell Brothers Circus

1905-00-00	Campbell Brothers Circus from Walter L. Main Circus

Record history
History of updates	2025-04-01: direction, staff

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24

† Lizzie (Wallace Liz) is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1941-11-05 at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, in United States, . Official death reason described as poison.

Origin

Lizzie (Wallace Liz) was born wild .

Comments / pictures

Records about Lizzie (Wallace Liz) from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
The square headed elephant shown in most of the pictures is "Lizzie", the head-carry elephant is "Blanche". These were Cheerful Gardners two key elephants starting in 1923 when he joined the Corporations John Robinson Circus until they were taken away to the Ringling Show in 1939.

Unfortunately both died the same day 11/5/41 in Atlanta, Ga. as a result of the poisoning that cost the Ringling Show 11 elephants.
William Buckles Woodcock

William "Buckles" Woodcock

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Lizzie (Wallace Liz), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 3 April 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2388. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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